Re: hardware RAID sunit and swidth values?

[Robert Sander <ml-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:16:13 +0000 (UTC),
 Derek Glidden <dglidden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thankfully, "mkfs.xfs" with no options Just Does The Right Thing on this
> machine, and sets sunit and swidth correctly when it makes the
> filesystem.  :)  (Though it might be different with hardware RAID...)

That may be the case with software RAID, where mkfs.xfs is able to get
the stripe size from the md driver. But with at least our hardware RAID
boxen sunit and swidth are both set to 0 (zero).

My only remaining question is: Does this affect performance in any
dramatic way?

Greetings
-- 
Robert Sander
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